On just the second day of his first term, Barack Obama appointed George Mitchell as his special envoy for Middle East peace and boldly asserted that his administration would 'actively and aggressively seek a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians'. At the outset of Ob…
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President Barack Obama's first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where he despondently admitted to those waiting for words of encouragement, "It is a hard slog to work through all of these issues." Contrast this gloomy assessment wi…
"Writer and political analyst Josh Ruebner charts Obama's journey from optimism to frustration in the first hard-hitting investigation into why the president failed to make any progress on this critical issue, and how his unwillingness to challenge the Israel lobby has shattered…